Inspirational quotes on community, freeconomy and life.

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Gandhi

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"If not you, then who? If not now, then when?" - Anonymous

"The way that a national economy preys on its internal colonies is by the destruction of community" - Wendell Berry

"My life is my message" - Gandhi

"We will surely get to our destination if we join hands." - Aung San Suu Kyi

"It is just good common sense. If you love thy neighbour as thyself, he will do likewise with you." - Gandhi

"No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." - Henrik Ibsen

"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." - Aldo Leopold

"A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must give it this soul." - Pope John Paul II

"One has to be self-reliant in everything. If people do not start working of their own free will, time and circumstances will make them do so ... If the nation breathes such a healthy air, it would definitely grow healthy" - Gandhi

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured." - Kurt Vonnegurt Jr.

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." - Morrie Schwartz

"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world." - Brandi Snyder

"If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his money, but subtract from his desires." - Epicurus

"Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth." - Lanza Del Vasto

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed." - Gandhi

"For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other." - Millard Fuller

"I am a part of all that I have met." - Alfred Tennyson

"We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race." - Cicero

"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." - George Bernard Shaw

"Personal service when it merges into universal service is the only service worth doing" - Gandhi

"In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it." - Marianne Williamson

"I beg you not to adopt any 'go slow' methods of nonviolence. In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor. A merely soft, spineless ineffective kind of nonviolence will actually encourage the growth of the status quo and all the forces of a violent system which we deplore." - Vinoba Bhavé

"The individual, being pure, sacrifices himself for the family, the latter for the village, the village for the district, the district for the province, the province for the nation, the nation for all" - Gandhi

"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something." - Sandra Day O'Connor

"We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been - a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free." - Starhawk

"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor." - Hubert H. Humphrey

"Every human being has a right to love and therefore to find the wherewithal to feed himself and where necessary to clothe and house himself. But, for this very simple performance, we need no assistance from economists or their laws." - Gandhi

"There is no need for me to protest against the government's faults, it is against its good deeds that my protests are needed." - Vinoba Bhavé

"Money has become a ring we wear through the nose, which allows us to be lead by those who control it" - Mark Kinney

"A house does not collapse if a single brick is removed, but everyone realizes that from the day the brick came off, the house has certainly begun to get weakened. While it is difficult for the first brick to get loose, it is not so for the second brick to fall away or get removed. Every reform in the world has been initiated by the efforts of one man" - Gandhi

"One has to be self-reliant in everything. If people do not start working of their own free will, time and circumstances will make them do so ... If the nation breathes such a healthy air, it would definitely grow healthy" - Gandhi

"The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more ... To bring this ideal into being the entire social order has got to be reconstructed ... as we progress towards our goal, we shall find contentment and happiness, and to that extent too shall we have contributed towards the bringing into being of a non-violent society" - Gandhi

"By the non-violent method we seek to destroy not the capitalist, we seek to destroy capitalism ... I must not aim at his destruction. I must strive for his conversion" - Gandhi

"Socialism is a beautiful word and so far as I am aware in socialism all the members of society are equal - none low, none high. In the individual body the head is not high because it is the top of the body, nor are the soles of the feet low because they touch the earth. Even as members of the individual body are equal, so are the members of society. That is socialism ... This socialism is as pure as crystal. It, therefore, requires crystal-like means to achieve it" - Gandhi

"I will give you this talisman. When you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and yourself melting away" - Gandhi